LANCASTER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-27 published
Self-inflicted wound kills man who shot housemate
A man who police say shot a woman he was living with and then
turned the gun on himself died in hospital yesterday.
Pauline MATTIS, 50, was shot in the face on Tuesday at the business
she and Frank
PERREIRA owned. She remains in hospital.
Mr. PERREIRA was found shot in the head with a handgun beside
him.
CFTO news reported last night that Mr.
PERREIRA was living with
four women at the same time.
"He wasn't coming home. He never spent 24 hours with me. He always
had big plans, big lies. He's on the road... this business trip
or that business trip," said Carol
LABAS.
She said she met Mr.
PERREIRA on an Internet dating service and
that he owed her $87,000.
John LANCASTER,
CFTONews
Page A12

LANDA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-07 published
LANDA,
Eva
Died peacefully, at home, on June 5th, 2003 after a long battle
with cancer. Eva is survived by her parents George and Maria
HEGEDUS, husband Arthur
LANDA, children Jacqueline and David
FABIAN, grandchildren Matthew and Jillian
FABIAN.
Remembered
by step-sons Adam, Jeremy and Shaun. Loved by dear Friends Terry
and Simon. Special thanks to the Temmy Ladner Palliative Care
Unit. Contact Benjamin's Funeral Home for arrangements 416-663-9060.
Donations can be made to the Jewish Family and Child Service
Scholarship Fund.

LANDRY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-07-09 published
Hugh THIRD
In loving memory of Hugh
THIRD, who passed away Wednesday, July 3rd,
2003 at the Sudbury Regional Hospital - Laurentian Site.
Beloved husband of Lois
(CLAIR)
THIRD of Sudbury. Loving father of
Lisa Gladstone and Krista
THIRD both of Toronto and David
THIRD
(fiancée Jody
LANDRY) of Val Caron, stepchildren Christina
DEMJEN
(husband Attila) of Keswick and Gregory
MUCIN (wife
Lisa) of Sudbury.
Cherished grandfather of Molly, Tyler, Amy, Ric and Holly. Dear son
of William and Eunice
THIRD predeceased. Dear brother of George of
LittleCurrent,ElaineMcGAULEY (husband Dwight predeceased) of
Tehkummah and Ed predeceased (wife Lilly of Gore Bay). Sadly missed
by nieces and nephews.
A celebration of Hugh's life was held at the Jackson and Barnard
Funeral Home on July 7th, 2003. Cremation at the Parklawn Crematorium.

LANDRY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-14 published
Philanthropist extraordinaire
Francophone students were among the many beneficiaries of her
generosity
By Randy RAYSpecial to The Globe and Mail Monday, July 14, 2003
- Page R7
Ottawa -- Before he died in February, 1993, millionaire Baxter
RICARD urged his wife
Alma to spend the couple's fortune wisely.
''Put it back into the community, " he told her. ''Spend it well.''
Mrs. RICARD did not let her husband down.
In the 10 years following the death of Mr.
RICARD, who owned
a chain of radio, television and cable stations in Northern Ontario,
she earned a reputation as one of Canada's most generous philanthropists,
highlighted by a $23-million donation in 1998 to a fellowship
fund that promotes higher education to francophone students across
the country.
Mrs. RICARD, who was born in Montreal on October 4, 1906, died
at her home in Sudbury on June 2. She was 96.
To date, the Ottawa-based Fondation Baxter and Alma Ricard has
given 81 students a total of $4.2-million to further their postsecondary
education. Other beneficiaries of the couple's generosity have
included colleges, hospitals, church groups and universities
in Sudbury and Toronto.
''Mrs. RICARD is one of the biggest philanthropists in Canada,"
said Alain
LANDRY, executive director of the foundation, which
was formed in 1988 to distribute the
RICARDs' money to various
charitable causes. The fellowship fund was set up a decade later.
Mrs. RICARD, formerly Alma
VÉZINA, moved to Sudbury in 1931 after
responding to a job advertisement from a hardware store run by
Félix RICARD, father of Baxter
RICARD.
She was trained as a secretary
at the time.
''She took the train and arrived at 4 a.m.," says Mr.
LANDRY.
''In those days, a young lady was not to be seen with a man going
to a hotel, so she and Baxter went to a church where they sat
until daylight, and she fell in love with him.'' She worked as
an administrative assistant to the elder Mr.
RICARD and eventually
married Baxter, who in later years inherited his father's hardware
store and ran it with the help of his wife.
In 1947, the
RICARDs left the hardware business and began building
a broadcasting empire in Northern Ontario, starting with two
radio stations in Sudbury and growing to include numerous radio
and television stations. Radio stations established by the couple
included CHNO, the first bilingual radio station in Ontario,
CFBR and
CJMX-FM.
In 1974, when cable television started to expand, Baxter
RICARD
and some colleagues obtained a licence for cable distribution
in northern and eastern Ontario and created Northern Cable Holdings
Ltd., which served the greater Sudbury area and areas as far
north as Hearst, Ontario In 1980, the company acquired two television
stations to serve the same areas and gave it the name Mid-Canada
Television. Mr.
RICARD also had an interest in a Toronto cable-television
company.
Alma RICARD was her husband's ''right-hand person" and took an
active part in the broadcasting business and all other ventures
he was involved in, including the city-planning committee in
Sudbury, the board of directors at Sudbury General Hospital and
the Central Canada Broadcasting Association. ''They were inseparable
in all those activities," says Mr.
LANDRY.
Like Felix
RICARD,
Baxter and Alma
RICARD were strong believers
in a Canadian mosaic that included French-speaking citizens.
In an era when Ontario's francophones were not permitted to study
in French, Felix
RICARD didn't have the financial means to promote
the francophone culture and lobby for French schooling, so he
became an outspoken trustee on the local school board.
As a trustee, he was ''a defender of the rights of francophones
in matters of French education... [who] made significant gains
for the francophone population of that region. A school in Sudbury
bears his name," says a document obtained from Fondation Baxter
& Alma Ricard. Baxter and Alma
RICARD, on the other hand, made
millions in the broadcasting industry and had the financial wherewithal
to further the francophone cause, including the struggle for
a quality education for French-speaking Ontarians.
''Baxter had no family and the couple had no children so they
had to think of who would inherit their money," says André
LACROIX
of Sudbury, a lawyer, business associate and long-time friend
of the RICARDs. ''Fairly early in the game they realized most
of their assets should be used for charitable purposes. That's
when they developed the idea of a charitable foundation.'' In
its initial years after Mr.
RICARD's death, the foundation donated
$600,000 to Cambrian College and $1-million each to Sudbury General
Hospital, the University of Sudbury, and Laurentian University,
all in Sudbury, and a total of more than $4-million to the University
of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
In the early 1990s, the
RICARDs and their associates sold their
radio and television stations to Baton Broadcasting and their
cable distribution company to
CFCFLtd. In 1998, on the strength
of money reaped from the sale, the fellowship fund was started
and aimed specifically at francophone Canadians living permanently
in a minority situation outside of Quebec who need money to advance
their studies beyond a bachelor's degree.
Based on Baxter
RICARD's idea, the fund was created jointly by
businessman Paul
DESMARAISSr., now chairman of the executive
committee of management and holding company Power Corporation
of Canada. Mr.
DESMARAIS and Mr.
LACROIX, plus Paul
DESMARAIS
Jr., are members of the board of directors of Fondation Baxter
& Alma Ricard.
It was launched with the original $23-million donation from Ms.
RICARD and despite many disbursements, today sits at $25-million
thanks to interest earned on the principal, says Mr.
LANDRY.
Until her death, Mrs.
RICARD was president of the board and until
three months ago, continued to sign cheques, says Mr.
LACROIX,
who remembers Mrs.
RICARD as a ''generous and kind person who
helped people with problems.''
''Baxter's father would be proud of what Alma has accomplished
since Baxter died. It is well along the way to what he had promoted
for many years," says Mr.
LACROIX.
In addition to donations in the millions of dollars over the
years, Mrs.
RICARD once helped out a person who couldn't handle
her mortgage payments and was about to lose her home; she also
donated to a religious group that raised money for the poor.
Mr. LACROIX remembers Mrs.
RICARD as a woman who loved to have
fun.
''From age 70 onward she didn't mind going on until 1 a.m. or
2 a.m. She enjoyed going out at night, she loved to dance," he
says. ''She was also quite religious, church attendance was sacred.''
Mrs. RICARD also loved to collect hats: ''She had hundreds of
hats and they were attention-getters," says Mr.
LACROIX, who
knew the RICARDs for more than 30 years.
Of all the recognition she received over the years, Mrs.
RICARD
cherished most the Officer of the Order of Canada bestowed on
her in 2000, says Mr.
LACROIX. Governor-General Adrienne
CLARKSON
travelled to Sudbury to present the honour to Mrs.
RICARD in
her sick bed, at her home, in September, 2002.

LANE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-03-19 published
LANE
-In loving memory of our dear Mother and Grandmother Mary Ellen, who passed away March 19, 1998.
In our homes she is fondly remembered.
Sweet memories cling to her name,
Those who loved her in life sincerely,
Still lover her in death just the same.
-Lovingly remembered by, Sheila and family

LANE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-03-26 published
LANE
-In loving memory of a dear husband, father and grandfather, Lloyd, who passed away one year ago on March 19, 2002.
God saw you getting tired,
A cure was not to be,
So He put his arms around you,
And whispered "Come to Me."
With tearful eyes we watched you
And saw you fade away.
Although we loved you dearly,
We could not make you stay.
Many times we've thought of you
Many times we've cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
A golden heart stopped beating
Your tender hands at rest.
God took you home to prove to us
He only takes the best.
--Lovingly remembered by Evelyn and family. Also lovingly remembered
by son and brother-in-law Ray
GUNDMUNDSON who passed away January 20,
2002 and nephew and cousin Ross
LANE who left us on March 26, 2002.

LANE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-14 published
LANE--In memory of our husband, father and grandfather, Douglas, who
passed away May 16, 1998.
Only a memory of bygone days
And a sigh for a face unseen
But a constant feeling that God alone
Knows just what should have been
--Lovingly remembered by wife Sheila and family.

LANE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-07 published
BERCOVITCH,
Patricia
(Pat) nee:
COWAN
After a 2½ year unwavering, brave and courageous battle with
colon cancer, Pat died peacefully with dignity at her home on
July 05, 2003. Beloved wife of Morley, survived by mother-in-law
Sadie CANHAM, dear sister of Mary
CHARIOT
(Larry,) brother Ted
COWAN
(Lucy,) brother Jim
COWAN (Sheila,) predeceased by sister
Barbara McGURK
(Bob.)
She will be missed by numerous loving nieces
and nephews, along with their children, many aunts, uncles, cousins
and caring Friends. Trained as a nurse and a teacher, she worked
in many capacities in her field, then came to Wasaga Beach as
the owner of the 'old'
IGA, touching the hearts of many people
along the way. Pat was most at home when boating on Georgian
Bay. She will be remembered as a loyal friend, loving sister
and a devoted wife. Thanks to Dr. James
LANE for the compassionate
care he gave Pat. Service at the Steeles Memorial Chapel, 390
Steeles Avenue West (between Bathurst and Yonge), Toronto, on
Monday, July 07, 2003 at 11 a.m. Shiva at 65 Knox Road East,
Wasaga Beach. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Pat
Bercovitch Foundation at the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital
would be greatly appreciated.

LANE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-24 published
McKENZIE,
DorothyElizabethLillian (née
LANE)
Devoted wife of the late Wm. Wallace
McKENZIE.
Born in 1914 in
Holland Landing. Daughter of Cuthbert and Emma
LANE. Sister of
the late Rube
OUGH.
Died peacefully at home September 22, age
89. She is deeply loved and will be ever remembered by her three
daughters Gail, Patsy and Lynne, son-in-law George
STEEVES, granddaughter
Kerri-Lynn, grand_sons Michael, Andrew and Kyle and her lifes
lessons will be lovingly taught to great-grand_son William. We
will all miss her. The best mother ever. A mother holds onto
her children's hands for a short while and their hearts forever.
Friends may call at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street,
at Goulding, south of Steeles), on Wednesday 5-8 p.m. Funeral
Service in the Chapel Thursday, 1 p.m. Interment York Cemetery.
Donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or charity of your
choice.

LANE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-31 published
Canada's last air vice-marshal
Pilot who had the most dangerous job in Bomber Command of Second
World War won top military decorations and rose to become lieutenant-general
By James McCREADY,
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - Page R7
The double duty of pathfinder and master bomber was the most
dangerous assignment in Bomber Command of the Second World War.
Like all young fliers who set off to attack German targets, Reg
LANE knew he was more likely to be killed in action than any sailor or soldier.
The job of the pathfinder was to go ahead of the main bomber
force and drop flares to mark the target. The master bomber would
stay over the site for up to 40 minutes, directing the air raid.
Mr. LANE, who has died at the age of 83, did both jobs. He was
the commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force's only pathfinder
squadron and one of the most decorated Canadian bomber pilots
in the Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross twice, and the rare Distinguished Service Order, which
when given to a man of junior rank -- he was only a squadron
leader at the time -- is second only to the Victoria Cross for valour.
On two trips as a pathfinder squadron leader, Mr.
LANE experienced
the twin horrors of the bomber pilot: falling prey to a night fighter and being "coned."
The night fighter struck first. On a raid over Cologne on February
14, 1943, Mr.
LANE's
Halifax dropped its coloured markers to
mark the bomb site only to be attacked by a German Me110, a twin-engine
plane with massive firepower. It attacked twice, hitting Mr.
LANE's aircraft in the wing. As the Me110 prepared a third attack
to finish them off, Mr.
LANE stood the Halifax on its nose and
put it into a power dive. The bomber screamed toward the surface
and he pulled out of the dive close to the sea. The manoeuvre
succeeded in losing the fighter, although the severely shot up
and metal-stressed Halifax was later declared a write-off.
Being "coned" was to be trapped in the intersecting beams of
two or more searchlights. Lit up like a bug on the ceiling of
a room, it made a bomber an easy target for anti-aircraft gunners
on the ground. On the night of April 16, 1943, the last flight
of his second tour of duty, searchlights caught Mr.
LANE over
Frankfurt as he returned from a raid on the Skoda plant at Pilsen
in Czechoslovakia. On that occasion, he dived the plane 1,000 feet to escape the lights.
The citation for his first Distinguished Flying Cross spoke of
his After flying 51 missions over Europe, Squadron Leader
LANE
was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and picked to fly
the first Canadian-made Lancaster across the Atlantic. It was
called the Ruhr Express. The government wanted to show the public
and the Royal Canadian Air Force that it was providing top-of-the-line
bombers to replace older planes such as the Halifax and the Wellington, which Canadians were flying.
"TheRuhrExpress was a propaganda stunt," says Steve
HARRIS,
the chief historian of the Department of National Defence in
Ottawa. "It was only the prototype, and was flown to Britain
long before the regular production Canadian Lancasters were ready
to be sent. Choosing Reg
LANE to fly the mission shows how highly he was regarded."
The fact that he was a good-looking decorated pilot helped the
publicity campaign. The reality was that the first plane was
not quite ready to fly. The Lancaster X was made at Victory Aircraft
outside Toronto. The plant would later become Avro and make the
short-lived supersonic Arrow. The Ruhr Express was rushed into
service for its maiden flight on August 1, 1943. Reg
LANE later recalled that it was almost unsafe to fly.
"We soon found out about the electrics; none of the engine instruments
was working and we had to make a decision whether to press on
to Montreal, as planned, or return to Malton," said Mr.
LANE,
who was fully aware of the propaganda value of the Ruhr Express.
"In view of the publicity, we decided it would be politic to
head for Dorval. There the aircraft was quickly wheeled into a hangar."
The life of the Ruhr Express is thoroughly documented in Target
Berlin, a National Film Board film That is still available.
One of the Canada Carries On series of propaganda "shorts" that
preceded the main features, the film was seen at movie theatres
during the war. A National Film Board cameraman filmed not only
the construction of the Ruhr Express at Malton (now Pearson International
airport), but joined the crew that ferried it across the Atlantic
and later occupied a passenger seat when Reg
LANE took the plane on its first mission over Berlin.
Only six of the new Lancaster X planes arrived in Britain by
the end of 1943. Though many others were flown over soon after,
by the end of the war many Royal Canadian Air Force crews were still flying the older Halifaxes.
Reginald John
LANE was born on January 4, 1920, in Victoria.
He went to public school there and after graduating from Victoria
High School worked for the Hudson's Bay Co. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in September of 1940.
After pilot training in Canada, under the British Commonwealth
AirTrainingPlan, Pilot Officer
LANE arrived in England in July
of 1941. He flew his first mission in November of that year,
as a second pilot on a Halifax. The target was Berlin and while
cloud cover made the flight a bit safer, it was cold and stormy.
In December he and his crew flew two dangerous missions, daylight
raids at low altitude against the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau, which were in harbour at Brest on the Atlantic
coast of France. The bombers came in at 150 feet and met heavy
anti-aircraft fire. In the first raid Mr.
LANE's squadron commander
was shot down; in the second the six Halifax aircraft were heavily
damaged by German fire but managed to make it back to England.
Later he also was part of a group that attacked the German battleship
Tirpitz, anchored in a fiord in German-occupied Norway. Pilot
Officer LANE's
Halifax flew from a base at Kinross, Scotland,
then, after arriving over Trondheim in Norway, spiralled through
the clouds. The Tirpitz was heavily defended and German guns
opened up as Mr.
LANE's plane flew just above the water. His
bomber was hit, cracking the spar in the main wing. Three other
Halifaxes were lost but he managed to make it back to Scotland after a nine-hour flight. The Tirpitz was untouched.
Squadron Leader
LANE flew in the first of the 1,000 bomber raids
designed by Air Marshal Arthur (Bomber)
HARRIS to overwhelm German
defences. That raid was against Cologne on May 30, 1942, and
41 bombers were lost. His last operational flight was just before
D-Day in June of 1944, when he acted as the master bomber over
Caen in Normandy. After that he was awarded a second Distinguished
Flying Cross, known as a bar to the first medal, after completing three tours of duty.
"He completed many attacks on heavily defended targets in Germany
and has consistently displayed a fine fighting spirit throughout
his operational career, read the citation. "An officer of outstanding
ability whose courage, cheerfulness and keen sense of duty were an inspiration to his crews."
Reg LANE started the war as a pilot officer, the lowest commissioned
rank. By 1944 he was a group captain, the air force equivalent
of a full colonel, and after his final flight was put in command of a squadron. He was 25.
After the war he stayed on in the air force, attending the Imperial
Defence College in England in 1946. He rose in the air-force
hierarchy, and took command of the Royal Canadian Air Force base
in Edmonton. Later he returned to Europe twice, the second time
as chief of staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force's No. 1 Air Division at Metz, Germany.
When the Army, Navy and Air Force became the Canadian Armed Forces
on February 1, 1968, his rank changed from air vice-marshal to
major-general. In August of 1969 he became deputy commander of
Mobile Command in Montreal, then commander of the Transport base
at Trenton, Ontario In 1972, with the rank of lieutenant-general,
he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado., as deputy commander of the North American Air Defence Command.
After retiring he worked for a while as a defence consultant
before moving full time to Victoria. He was active in air-force
associations in Canada and
in England. He was a patron of the
Yorkshire Air Museum, which has the only surviving Halifax. On
the anniversary of the Battle of Britain in early October, he laid a wreath at the war memorial in Victoria.
Reg LANE leaves his wife
Barbara, whom he married in 1944, and their two sons and two daughters.

LANG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-22 published
LANG,
Patricia▼Eileen▼ (née
LEDDY)
Died of natural causes in her 87th year, at Haliburton, Ontario,
on December 15th, 2003. Born in Saskatoon in 1917, Pat was the
fouth of seven children who grew up in a big rambling house on
Saskatchewan Crescent. Their home served as the unofficial hub
of the city's social scene from the children's formative years
to adulthood, when Pat left to marry Rudy
LANG in 1950. She met
Rudy sight unseen by teletype, communicating between her job
at Trans-Canada Airlines in Saskatoon and his at Canadian Pacific
Airlines in Regina. They enjoyed a long, happy life together
until Rudy's passing in 2002.
Pat and Rudy moved to Toronto in 1950 and started a new family.
In the East for the first time, Pat dedicated herself to raising
her son, Gerry and daughter Kathleen. She was an avid bridge
player and generously volunteered her time throughout her life
serving the Red Cross, the Catholic Women's League and the Mississauga
Hospital Auxiliary.
With the exception of four years in Ottawa, Pat spent the rest
of her life in the Toronto/Mississauga area, until her 12 year
affliction with Alzheimer's Disease required her to move to extendicare
facility in Haliburton in 2001 where she received the most perfect,
loving care of the professionals and fellow residents. The family
is profoundly grateful to Jane
ROSENBERG and her enlightened
staff and
to Dr. HARTWICK for the good physical health and quirky
vigour she enjoyed in her last years.
Patricia LANG is survived by Kathleen
LANG and Andrew
HACKETT,
Gerry and Colleen
LANG and grandchildren Geoffrey and Meghan
LANG, and brothers Murray
LEDDY and Brian
LEDDY.
Her▼ feisty energy
and wit touched everyone.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at the Our Lady of Fatima
Catholic Church, Minden on Friday, January 9, 2003 at 1: 00 p.m.
Interment to take place in the spring at Ingoldsby Pioneer Cemetery.
Reception to follow in the family centre at the Gordon A. Monk
Funeral Home Ltd.
Memorial donations to the Extendicare Proud Pioneers would be
appreciated and can be arranged through the Gordon A. Monk Funeral
Home Ltd., 127 Main Street, Minden (1-888-588-5777).

LANG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-26 published
He was the voice of the land
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster oversaw radio programming
that connected the country's isolated agricultural and fishing
communities
By Carol COOPER,
Special to The Globe and Mail Friday, December
26, 2003 - Page R15
It wasn't a great beginning. Racked with nerves during his first
on-air stint for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Winnipeg
radio agricultural show in 1944, Bob
KNOWLES gabbled the market
reports in a record three minutes, instead of the scheduled 10,
with the result that his boss had to spend the next seven minutes
rereading them.
"I don't suppose anyone made any sense out of anything I'd read,"
Mr. KNOWLES told the Regina Leader Post in 1981.
Many voice and elocution lessons later, Mr.
KNOWLES became an
accomplished and well-loved farm broadcaster, who won the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation farm department's Cowhide Trophy for
proficiency in broadcasting in 1951 and then rose through the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ranks to become the national
supervisor of farm and fisheries broadcasts.
Mr. KNOWLES, who in that capacity, oversaw programs such as Country
Calendar, Country Magazine, Summer Fallow and the daily agricultural
noon-hour shows, died in his sleep recently. He was 83.
Farm shows on radio and television offer up-to-date market information,
advice on growing crops and raising animals, and news on the
latest agricultural research from the universities to their busy
and isolated rural audience. In days gone by, when many more
Canadians made their living from the land without modern communication
methods, radio farm shows were particularly important.
As national supervisor of farm and fisheries broadcasts, and
chair of National Farm Radio Forum's executive committee for
a number of years, Mr.
KNOWLES contributed to one ground-breaking
Canadian show. Launched in the early forties as an adult-education
program for farmers, Farm Radio Forum brought farmers, their
wives and often their children together in an early version of
interactive radio. Gathering weekly throughout the winter in
living rooms, kitchens and community halls across the country,
they listened to the show's broadcasts.
After hearing a panel discussion, the group discussed questions
presented in study guides. A secretary recorded answers, which
were sent back to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, some
to be aired the following week. Their responses helped shape
agricultural policy across the country and initiated several
projects, said Rodger Schwass, a former national secretary of
Farm Radio Forum and professor emeritus from York University.
As its chair during the late fifties and early sixties, Mr.
KNOWLES
helped choose show topics and panelists and became involved in
one of its projects, Radios for India.
Forums across Canada raised money to help start a radio forum
in India, one of several countries, including Jamaica, Belize,
Ghana and Nigeria that adopted the Canadian idea. When the head
of Indian radio came to Canada for three months to study radio
forums, Mr.
KNOWLES shepherded him around the country. In turn,
Mr. KNOWLES participated in a training program in India. Radio
forums became the chief means of disseminating information during
India's Green Revolution, which ended up doubling the country's
food production.
Robert Gordon
KNOWLES was born on February 5, 1920 to Gordon
and Catherine Finn
KNOWLES on the family's homestead in Rutland,
Saskatchewan. The family had settled there from Ontario in 1907,
in the town that no longer exists, roughly 160 kilometres west
of Saskatoon. Affected by mild cerebral palsy resulting from
a difficult birth, Mr.
KNOWLES walked with a mild limp and was
unable to use his right hand.
Although Mr.
KNOWLES wanted nothing more than to become a farmer,
his father feared his son's disability would make that difficult.
Instead, he encouraged Mr.
KNOWLES to continue his education.
Upon completing his B.Sc. in agriculture at the University of
Saskatchewan in 1942, and with a low service rating because of
his disability, Mr.
KNOWLES did not enlist during the Second
World War. Instead, he completed his master's degree in agriculture
at the university in 1944, where he had met Pat
APTED, an honours
graduate in arts and biology, whom he married in 1943.
With so many men overseas, Mr.
KNOWLES had three job offers upon
graduation: as a district agriculturalist in Alberta, as a land
inspector for the Canadian Pacific Railway, or as a western farm
commentator with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He chose
the people's network. "At that time, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation was only eight-years-old and it seemed like a very
glamorous position," Mr.
KNOWLES told the Vernon Daily News in
After his first position in Winnipeg, he transferred to Edmonton
for a similar job, staying nine months, before returning to Winnipeg
as regional farm-broadcast commentator in 1950.
Of his early days in broadcasting, Mr.
KNOWLES told the Vernon
paper, "I made my work pass the following test: Is it of interest
and value to the farmer to know about this and why? I think I
did all right because I've been criticized equally by all farm
organizations at one time or another."
In 1954, Mr.
KNOWLES and his family packed up and moved to Toronto,
where he became the assistant supervisor of farm and fisheries
broadcasts and 19 months later, the supervisor.
Not only did he manage the section's budget, set its policy and
advise regional announcers across the country, but at least once
provided the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a breaking
story.
In 1963, Mr.
KNOWLES and most of the network's farm department
were on a flight that crashed during landing at Toronto International
Airport.
Uninjured, Mr.
KNOWLES left the plane to be put into a holding
room with fellow passengers. Once there, he demanded to call
home to reassure his wife and young family. Granted the privilege,
he immediately called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's
newsroom.
In 1967, with a major network restructuring under way, Mr.
KNOWLES
took a three-year leave of absence to work for the Food and Agriculture
Organization in Rome on the development of farm broadcasts.
Upon returning to Canada, he found his job had disappeared. Mr.
KNOWLES took the only Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Radio
farm commentator's job available, where he reported, wrote and
delivered approximately 6,000 broadcasts for Radio Noon in Regina,
until his retirement in 1980.
Said Bonnie
DONISON, producer of Radio Noon. "Because he was
so friendly and warm, people really liked to talk to him and
And he held some interesting interviews, once with a trouserless
federal minister of agriculture, Otto
LANG.
Mr.LANG had ripped
his pants getting out of a taxi, so he removed them, sent them
aside for mending and carried on, recalled Gerry
WADE, a fellow
farm-broadcaster who worked with Mr.
KNOWLES in Regina.
Of his broadcasting career, Mr.
KNOWLES told the Vernon Daily
News, "I can honestly say that during all of my time as a journalist,
there never was a day I didn't want to go into work."
Mr. KNOWLES also helped create the Canadian Farm Writers Federation
and was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame
in 1990.
He died on November 5 in Ottawa. His first wife Pat, predeceased
him in 1997. He leaves his second wife Marney, children Tony,
Laura, Alan and Janet, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

LANG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-30 published
LANG,
Patricia▲Eileen▲ (née
LEDDY)
Died of natural causes in her 87th year, at Haliburton, Ontario,
on December 15th, 2003. Born in Saskatoon in 1917, Pat was the
fouth of seven children who grew up in a big rambling house on
Saskatchewan Crescent. Their home served as the unofficial hub
of the city's social scene from the children's formative years
to adulthood, when Pat left to marry Rudy
LANG in 1950. She met
Rudy sight unseen by teletype, communicating between her job
at Trans-Canada Airlines in Saskatoon and his at Canadian Pacific
Airlines in Regina. They enjoyed a long, happy life together until Rudy's passing in 2002.
Pat and Rudy moved to Toronto in 1950 and started a new family.
In the East for the first time, Pat dedicated herself to raising
her son, Gerry and daughter Kathleen. She was an avid bridge
player and generously volunteered her time throughout her life
serving the Red Cross, the Catholic Women's League and the Mississauga Hospital Auxiliary.
With the exception of four years in Ottawa, Pat spent the rest
of her life in the Toronto/Mississauga area, until her 12 year
affliction with Alzheimer's Disease required her to move to extendicare
facility in Haliburton in 2001 where she received the most perfect,
loving care of the professionals and fellow residents. The family
is profoundly grateful to Jane
ROSENBERG and her enlightened
staff and
to Dr. HARTWICK for the good physical health and quirky vigour she enjoyed in her last years.
Patricia LANG is survived by Kathleen
LANG and Andrew
HACKETT,
Gerry and Colleen
LANG and grandchildren Geoffrey and Meghan
LANG, and brothers Murray
LEDDY and Brian
LEDDY.
Her▲ feisty energy and wit touched everyone.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at the Our Lady of Fatima
Catholic Church, Minden on Friday, January 9, 2003 at 1: 00 p.m.
Interment to take place in the spring at Ingoldsby Pioneer Cemetery.
Reception to follow in the family centre at the Gordon A. Monk Funeral Home Ltd.

LANG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-30 published
WINTERMEYER,
Elizabeth ''Betty'' (formerly
GREENE, née
LANG)
Peacefully, at K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, Betty died on Monday, December 29, 2003. She was 87.
Dear sister of Kelly
NASH of London, Sandra
ORR of Waterloo and
Peggy O'BRIEN of Peterborough. She will also be remembered by
members of the
WINTERMEYER family, brother-in-law Bryson ''Spike''
KEARNS of Kitchener and her very special nieces, nephews and their families.
She was predeceased by her husbands, Robert L.
GREENE and John
J. WINTERMEYER, parents Angela (KELLY) and Reinhold
LANG and sisters Ann
KEARNS and Patsy
BEAN.
Friends are invited to share their memories of Betty with her
family at the Edward R. Good Funeral Home, 171 King Street South,
Waterloo, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, January 2,
2004. Prayers will be said at the funeral home on Saturday, January
3, 2004 at 10 a.m., followed by the funeral mass at St. Louis
Roman Catholic Church, Waterloo, at 10: 30 a.m., Saturday, with
Rev. Robert
LIDDY, C.R. as celebrant. The parish prayer will
be held at the funeral home on Friday evening at 8: 45 p.m. Following
cremation, interment will take place in the
WINTERMEYER family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

LANGANKI o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
Vina Mary LANGANKI
November 17, 1931 to January 12, 2003
It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of
Vina Mary LANGANKI, who passed away suddenly on January 12th, 2003.
Vina was born in Sucker Creek, Manitoulin Island on November 17th,
1931. It was there that she enjoyed visiting her grandmother who
taught her many life lessons. At the age of 16 she moved to
Cleveland, Ohio where she cared for a family who taught her about the
many facets of the Jewish religion and traditions. In 1963 she moved
to live with her sister Viola, and her brother-in-law Willi
HACKL.
She met her husband Paul
LANGANKI in 1965 and they were married at
St. Luke's Anglican Church in Dryden. In 1966 they had their first
child Roger David, followed by Gregory Wayne in 1967. Vina enjoyed
spending time with family and Friends, gardening, baking, cooking and
her dedication to her faith, which lead her to pursue a commitment as
a layreader for St. Luke's Anglican Church. Her work with the church
involved her in all aspects of church life, as well as, several
charitable foundations. She was very appreciative for the fellowship
of the church. Her trip to the Holy Land in 2001 was a perfect
culmination to her faith. However, her greatest joy was spending
time with her grandchildren. Vina was predeceased by her husband
Paul, and her mother May and her father John, her brother Clarence
and her niece Katherine. Vina is survived by her devoted sons Roger
(Debbie) and Wayne
LANGANKI both of Dryden. Brothers: Ted
NAHWEGHOW
of Six Nations, Robert (Delores)
NAHWEGAHBOW of Mississauga and Garry
NAHWEGAHBOW of Sudbury. Sisters: Viola (Willi)
HACKL of Dryden,
Beaulah NAHWEGAHBOW of Montana, Colleen (Jack)
ANDERSON of Moose Jaw.
Grandchildren Zachary and Amy
LANGANKI and Dylan
HALE, numerous
nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held on Thursday, January
16th, 2003 at 2: 00 p.m. at St. Luke's Anglican Church. Interment at
the Dryden Cemetery.

LANGFORD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-26 published
Dorothy Evelyn
PURVIS (née
LANGFORD)
In loving memory of Dorothy Evelyn
PURVIS (née
LANGFORD) passed away
October 28, 2003 after a short battle with cancer, at the age of 91.
Dorothy was predeceased by her husband William and her son William
Edward (Bill). Dorothy will be deeply missed by her daughter-in-law
Barbara, grand_son William Evan (Bill), great grandchildren Michelle,
Shannon and their mother Maureen, grand_son Christopher Peter and his
wife Sharon, great grandchildren Jessica, Brandon and Austin.
Dorothy will be fondly remembered by numerous family and Friends in
Calgary, Sudbury (Ontario), Gore Bay (Ontario) and Tobacco Lake
(Ontario). The family would love to thank the staff at the Renoir
and the Sarcee Hospice for their love and professional care.
Memorial service and funeral will be held at the All Saints Anglican
Church early in July, 2004, at a date and time to be determined and
shared in these publications.

LANGIANO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-25 published
DONOGHUE,
Lynn, R.C.A.
Born April 20, 1953, Red Lake, Ontario. Died November 22, 2003,
St. Joseph's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. Lynn leaves to cherish
her memory her parents Marjorie (Marni)
DONOGHUE,
Meaford,Ontario
and H. Graham
DONOGHUE and his wife
Jacqueline,Calgary,Alberta,
her beloved son, Luca
LANGIANO and his father, Domenico
LANGIANO,
Toronto, her sister Barbara
VAVALIDIS, husband, Stefanos and
sons, Alexander and Philip, London, England, her extended family
and many Friends.
Lynn was a respected and critically acclaimed artist and portraitist
whose strong vibrantly luminous works can be found in galleries
and museums across Canada and in private collections internationally.
She was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Art in 1991.
Lynn was also recognized as an active advocate for many civic
and humanitarian causes. She received the Queen's Golden Jubilee
Medal for outstanding service to the community in 2002.
Cremation has taken place. A celebratory service will be held
at Saint Mary Magdeline Anglican Church in January. Date to be
announced. Those wishing to remember Lynn may do so by supporting
those causes of special interest to her.

LANGIANO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-04 published
A painter of real people
Toronto artist sought to get beneath a subject's veneer to achieve
a 'luminous presence'
By Allison
LAWLOR,
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, December
4, 2003 - Page R11
'She'll paint you the way she wants," David
MIRVISH, patron and
art collector, once said of the Canadian portrait painter Lynn
DONOGHUE.
"She's sensitive to mood," Mr.
MIRVISH, who sat for Ms.
DONOGHUE
on several occasions, told The Financial Post Magazine in 1984.
"She may catch you at a different angle, and not every subject
feels that's the way they want to be seen. The important thing
is whether it's a successful picture or not. You shouldn't expect
to like a portrait."
But what you could expect if you were having your portrait painted
by Ms. DONOGHUE is that you would at the very least enjoy the
process. Sitting for the Toronto-based painter was like having
tea with a lively, old friend.
"You were always chatting about this and that with Lynn," said
Father Daniel
DONOVAN, an art collector and professor of theology
at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, who also
sat for Ms.
DONOGHUE. "
She was always vibrant and alive."
Always seeking to get beyond a person's veneer, Ms.
DONOGHUE
enjoyed the process of trying to draw out her subjects. "She
wanted people to [be] open and communicate with her," Father
DONOVAN said.
Mr. DONOGHUE, considered one of the pre-eminent portrait painters
in Canada, died last month in Toronto. She was 50.
"She made a huge impact [in the Canadian art world] and did so
at a very young age," said Christian Cardell
CORBET, founder
of the Canadian Portrait Academy.
"She was at a stage... where she was just about to take off,"
Mr. CORBET said. "What she could have contributed was just cut
short."
Ms. DONOGHUE started showing her work in 1973. Her early work
caused a stir when some galleries refused to show her giant portraits
of naked males. Since then she has had countless group shows
and solo exhibitions. Her work can be found in the Art Gallery
of Ontario, the Ontario Legislature, the National Museum of Botswana,
the Vancouver Art Gallery, and several other private and public
collections.
Ms. DONOGHUE, who was elected a member of the Royal Canadian
Academy of Arts in 1991, did both commissioned and non-commissioned
portraits. One of her notable commissions was of John
STOKES,
the former speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Last year, Ms.
DONOGHUE completed a portrait of Margaret
ATWOOD
that came was at once celebrated. After approaching the Canadian
literary icon to paint her portrait, Ms.
DONOGHUE set about to
capture Ms.
ATWOOD using bright oil colours. In the portrait,
Ms. ATWOOD, sits with her legs crossed and looks out at the viewer
wearing a vibrant, green shirt.
"She was not afraid of colour," Mr.
CORBET said. "She would take
it [paint] right from the tube."
Three years ago, Terrence
HEATH, the former director of the Winnipeg
Art Gallery, wrote in BorderCrossings following an exhibition
of Ms. DONOGHUE's work at a Toronto gallery: "Each painting...
is a statement in colour. The figures are set in colour fields
that tell you as much about the figure as the likeness and body
position do. Most remarkable about these paintings is their sheer
luminous presence."
"She created honest portraits" and "didn't follow much of a systematic
approach to portraiture," Mr.
CORBET said. "She allowed her spontaneity
and intuition to come through."
Ms. DONOGHUE once said that her historic mentors, such as Frans
Hals, conveyed in their portraits the feeling of people who are
very alive. "Why do people know, when they look at a painting
of mine, that it is a real person?" she told The Financial Post
Magazine in 1984. It was one of her perpetual queries into the
nature of portrait painting.
Lynn DONOGHUE was born on April 20, 1953, in the small community
of Red Lake in northern Ontario, more than 500 kilometres from
ThunderBay.Her father Graham
DONOGHUE was a mining engineer
who moved his family about, including a spell in Newfoundland.
Ms. DONOGHUE finished high school at H.B. Beal Secondary School
in London, Ontario She graduated in 1972 with a special art diploma.
Having lived in England and New York as an artist, Toronto was
home to Ms.
DONOGHUE.
She lived with her 14-year-old son Luca
in a loft in a converted industrial building in the city's west
end. Her loft doubled as her studio. In the cluttered space,
some of her paintings hung on the walls and canvases were stacked
next to the essentials required for daily living. Living off
the sale of her paintings, Ms.
DONOGHUE financially scrapped
by month to month, her Friends said.
Described as vivacious and gregarious, she was "the life of the
party." An active member of the arts community, she could regularly
be seen at gallery openings and art shows around Toronto. Outside
the art world, she was an active community member. Most recently
she helped to organize events for Toronto's new mayor David
MILLER
during the municipal election. She also attended the Anglican
Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, where a painting she had done of
her son's baptism hung on the wall.
An exhibit of Ms.
DONOGHUE's most recent major work is scheduled
to open at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario, in March.
Called the The Last Supper, the large group piece, which Ms.
DONOGHUE started in 2001, consists of 13 portraits encircling
a central table piece, which is itself a triptych. The installation
requires a total wall space of about 5 metres by 10 metres (16
feet by 34 feet).
Father DONOVAN well remembers how he first learned of the project.
One day, he received a call from Ms.
DONOGHUE asking if he would
have lunch with her. She had an idea she wanted to talk to him
about. The idea turned out to be the The Last Supper and Ms.
DONOGHUE said she needed his help. After their lunch, she invited
Father DONOVAN, along with several others, to dinner. While they
were eating and drinking, she photographed them, capturing their
mannerisms and expressions. From the photographs, she made a
series of sketches which she then used to develop the large group
piece.
"She loved what she was doing," Mr.
CORBET said. "There was this
inner drive that said 'go on.' "
Ms. DONOGHUE, an insulin-dependent diabetic, died on November
22 in a Toronto hospital, after suffering from an insulin reaction
that led to a coma.
She leaves her parents Marjorie and Graham
DONOGHUE, her son
Luca LANGIANO and his father, Domenico
LANGIANO and sister Barbara
VAVALIDIS.

LANGLANDS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-23 published
HILDESHEIM,
PaulineMaryAdela
75, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, died suddenly on December 18, 2003
in the Halifax Infirmary, Q.E. II. Born in Toronto, Ontario in
1928, she was the only child of Paul and Nora
HOME
(CAWTHORNE.)
Her father changed his last name from
HILDESHEIM to
HOME at the
beginning of the First World War. Pauline attended Moulton College,
then took an Honours B.A. in modern languages and literature
from Trinity College in 1949 followed by an M.A. She went on
to teach French, Latin and German at Edgehill School for Girls
in Windsor Nova Scotia In 1953 she earned the degree of Bachelor
of Library Science at the University of Toronto. She was appointed
Assistant Librarian at the Halifax Memorial Library and then
became an Assistant Librarian at the University of Toronto Library.
Pauline returned to Halifax where she ultimately held the post
of Deputy Chief Librarian at the Halifax Memorial Library, which
she filled with great distinction until her retirement. During
her professional career, she earned the degrees of Master of
Library Science from the University of Toronto and Master of
Public Administration from Dalhousie University. Pauline was
a generous supporter of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and an
enthusiastic member of its Travel Committee, as well as being
an active member of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia. She was
Treasurer of the Canadian Federation of University Women, Halifax
Branch, a Member of the Congregational Council of the Cathedral
Church of All Saints. As well, she was Treasurer of the Cathedral
Branch of Anglican Church of Women, a member of the Cathedral
League, and a faithful communicant of the Anglican Church of
Canada. Pauline is survived by several cousins and her god-daughter,
Cynthia LANGLANDS, of Dallas, Texas. Pauline possessed a remarkable
memory along with high intelligence and a strong voluntary spirit,
and will be sadly missed by her family and many Friends. Cremation
has taken place. A memorial service will be held in early 2004.
Details to be announced later. Donations in Pauline's memory
can be made to the Cathedral Church of All Saints, the Art of
Gallery of Nova Scotia or a charity of choice.

LANGSFORD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-10 published
LUCAS,
ProfessorEmeritusAlec
Died, after a lengthy illness, at Island Lodge in Ottawa, on
May 6th, 2003. He was born in Toronto June 20, 1913, the youngest
child of Bert and Emma
LUCAS, and grew up on a farm near Cobourg.
It was here his love of nature and books was nurtured. Schooling
began at Cook's School, a two-roomed school near Cobourg, where
he later taught while studying for a B.A. and M.A. from Queen's.
He obtained a Ph.D. in English from Harvard in 1951. Wishing
to return to Canada, he accepted an offer from University of
New Brunswick and taught English there until 1957 before going
to McGill where he taught for and wrote for the next 30 years.
After retirement he was made an Emeritus Professor in 1984, and
worked part-time, which included a visiting lectureship in Iqaluit.
He continued to write until he suffered a stroke in December
1995. Alec was an early advocate for the importance of teaching
of Canadian literature and was the founding coordinator of the
Canadian Studies Program, the forerunner of The McGill Institute
for the Study of Canada. He wrote extensively on Canadian literature,
including articles for The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature,
and the Literary History of Canada. He published books on writers
such as Hugh MacLennan, Farley Mowat and Peter MacArthur and
edited several anthologies of short stories including the best
selling Great Canadian Short Stories. His passion for literature
and teaching was matched by his concern for and interest in nature
he was an active conservationist and bequeathed most of his woodland
property at Plaisance, Quebec to the Quebec Society of the Protection
of Birds as a nature reserve. He is predeceased by his parents,
and siblings Eva
FISHER,
VeraFORSYTH, and Leonard
LUCAS. He
leaves his wife, Sharon; former wives Margaret and Coula; children
George
(Charlotte) of White Rock, Suzanne (Allan)
LANGSFORD of
Kingston, and Edward of Halifax, five grandchildren, several
nieces and nephews including Sylvia (Tom)
MIDDLEBRO'of
Ottawa
and Joan (Dick)
MEYER of Barrie and grandnieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at the Mackay United Church,
39 Dufferin Road, Ottawa, May 16 at 3 p.m. Ashes will be interned
in Cobourg at a later date. If desired, a donation can be made
in his memory to Island Lodge, 1 Porter's Island Ottawa K1N 5M2
or a charity of choice.